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Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul

Author : Gregory I. Halfond
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501739328
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul written by Gregory I. Halfond and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the problem of how to conceptualize and administer their regional churches. As Gregory Halfond shows, the bishops of post-Roman Gaul oversaw a transformation in the relationship between church and state. He shows that by constituting themselves as a corporate body, the Gallic episcopate was able to wield significant political influence on local, regional, and kingdom-wide scales. Gallo-Frankish bishops were conscious of their corporate membership in an exclusive order, the rights and responsibilities of which were consistently being redefined and subsequently expressed through liturgy, dress, physical space, preaching, and association with cults of sanctity. But as Halfond demonstrates, individual bishops, motivated by the promise of royal patronage to provide various forms of service to the court, often struggled, sometimes unsuccessfully, to balance their competing loyalties. However, even the resulting conflicts between individual bishops did not, he shows, fundamentally undermine the Gallo-Frankish episcopate's corporate identity or integrity. Ultimately, Halfond provides a far more subtle and sophisticated understanding of church-state relations across the early medieval period.

Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul

Author : Gregory I. Halfond
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501739352
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul written by Gregory I. Halfond and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the problem of how to conceptualize and administer their regional churches. As Gregory Halfond shows, the bishops of post-Roman Gaul oversaw a transformation in the relationship between church and state. He shows that by constituting themselves as a corporate body, the Gallic episcopate was able to wield significant political influence on local, regional, and kingdom-wide scales. Gallo-Frankish bishops were conscious of their corporate membership in an exclusive order, the rights and responsibilities of which were consistently being redefined and subsequently expressed through liturgy, dress, physical space, preaching, and association with cults of sanctity. But as Halfond demonstrates, individual bishops, motivated by the promise of royal patronage to provide various forms of service to the court, often struggled, sometimes unsuccessfully, to balance their competing loyalties. However, even the resulting conflicts between individual bishops did not, he shows, fundamentally undermine the Gallo-Frankish episcopate's corporate identity or integrity. Ultimately, Halfond provides a far more subtle and sophisticated understanding of church-state relations across the early medieval period.

The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition

Author : Yaniv Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009285033
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition written by Yaniv Fox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of western Europe, and their stories were shaped through a process of historiographical adaptation across a millennium. This expert commentary is for scholars interested in early medieval history and historiography.

Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul

Author : Yaniv Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107064597
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul written by Yaniv Fox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the political and social effects brought about by the establishment of Columbanian monasteries in seventh-century Gaul.

Radegund

Author : E. T. Dailey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197656102
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Radegund written by E. T. Dailey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen is a biography of a sixth-century princess, war captive, queen, deaconess, nun, and saint. This book examines her life, times, and legacy, illuminating the society in which she lived and narrating her personal history in an accessible way, appealing to a general audience, yet without compromising its merit as a work of scholarship that offers important new insights for experts in the field. Radegund succeeded in establishing a place for herself within this difficult and dangerous world, despite the trials she faced, which distinguishes her as a figure worthy of detailed biographical study. Unique among her peers, Radegund achieved a position of prominence as a woman in a foreign land, without resorting to the violence, intrigue, and murder that characterised the lives of other prominent women during this period, like Brunhild or Fredegund. Departing from the portrait of an idealised saint offered by her early medieval hagiographers, and from the traditional narrative established in more recent academic works, this book presents a new interpretation of this remarkable woman with many insights about the history of a crucial period in the transition from Roman to medieval epochs"--

The Dark Queens

Author : Shelley Puhak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635574927
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Queens written by Shelley Puhak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller “A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life.”--Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden Figures The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to rule. Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet-in sixth-century Merovingian France, where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport-these two iron-willed strategists reigned over vast realms, changing the face of Europe. The two queens commanded armies and negotiated with kings and popes. They formed coalitions and broke them, mothered children and lost them. They fought a decades-long civil war-against each other. With ingenuity and skill, they battled to stay alive in the game of statecraft, and in the process laid the foundations of what would one day be Charlemagne's empire. Yet after the queens' deaths-one gentle, the other horrific-their stories were rewritten, their names consigned to slander and legend. In The Dark Queens, award-winning writer Shelley Puhak sets the record straight. She resurrects two very real women in all their complexity, painting a richly detailed portrait of an unfamiliar time and striking at the roots of some of our culture's stubbornest myths about female power. The Dark Queens offers proof that the relationships between women can transform the world.

The Christian Economy of the Early Medieval West

Author : Ian Wood
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1685710263
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book The Christian Economy of the Early Medieval West written by Ian Wood and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the chronology of the Church’s acquisition of wealth, and particularly of landed property, as well as the distribution of its income, in the period between the conversion of Constantine and the eighth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Studies in Medievalism XXXI

Author : Karl Fugelso
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184384625X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Medievalism XXXI written by Karl Fugelso and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the use, and misuse, of the Middle Ages for political aims.

Public Space in the Late Antique City (2 vols.)

Author : Luke Lavan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004423826
Total Pages : 1737 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Public Space in the Late Antique City (2 vols.) by : Luke Lavan

Download or read book Public Space in the Late Antique City (2 vols.) written by Luke Lavan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 1737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at secular urban space in the Mediterranean city, A.D. 284-650, focusing on places where people from different religious and social group were obliged to mingle. It looks at streets, processions, fora/ agorai, market buildings, and shops.

Writing about the Merovingians in the Early United States

Author : Gregory I Halfond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781802700930
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Writing about the Merovingians in the Early United States written by Gregory I Halfond and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of Merovingian history as a cultural and political model for American writers in the early years of the post-revolution United States.

The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World

Author : Bonnie Effros
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190234180
Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World written by Bonnie Effros and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines research from a variety of fields, including archaeology, bio-archaeology, architecture, hagiographic literature, manuscripts, liturgy, visionary literature and eschalology, patristics, numismatics, and material culture, Diverse list of contributors, many whose research has never before been available in English, Provides substantial research regarding women's history in the Merovingian period, Expands research beyond Europe to include other cultures that came in contact with the Merovingians Book jacket.

The King’s Bishops

Author : E. Crosby
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137352124
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The King’s Bishops written by E. Crosby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England and Normandy after the Conquest. Esteemed medievalist Everett U. Crosby considers new perspectives of medieval state-building and the vexed relations between secular and ecclesiastical authority.

Merovingian Letters and Letter Writers

Author : V. Alice Tyrrell
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503583587
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Merovingian Letters and Letter Writers written by V. Alice Tyrrell and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, useful for both scholars and students of Late Antique Gaul, is a survey of 600 plus Latin letters written during the Merovingian era (ca. 500-750) by bishops and other clergy, highly-placed laymen, women, popes, and royalty. Various aspects of the correspondence are discussed, including amicitia, literary circles, gift-giving, letter-bearers, Scripture usage, and women's writing. An appendix supplies English summaries of the letters, many of which have not received translation into any modern language. Primary sources from the Frankish kingdom during the Merovingian era (ca. 500-750) are few and far between. This volume is a survey of more than 600 Latin letters, selected by the author, that were exchanged between persons in Gaul during that time period. Many are almost entirely unknown and have never been translated into any modern language. While most of the letters were authored by clerics and highly-placed laymen, a small but significant number was composed by women, both religious and lay. For elite individuals, letter networks were the social media of their day. Letters were written to maintain the bonds of friendship, to seek or extend patronage and political alliance, to instruct, rebuke, defend, console, and recommend. Many have come down to us in collections; others are strays embedded in other texts or deperdita that come to light only in the replies of others. In seven chapters, the author discusses numerous aspects of the letters and explores how they fit with, and enlarge upon, the better-known sources of the period such as the works of Gregory of Tours, Fredegar, the anonymous History of the Franks (LHF), and various saints' vitae.

Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus

Author : Alexander O'Hara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019085801X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus written by Alexander O'Hara and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author, but also an historical figure in his own right. Born in the ancient Roman town of Susa in the foothills of the Italian Alps, he became a monk of Bobbio, the monastery founded by the Irish exile Columbanus, soon after his death in 615. He became the archivist and personal assistant to successive Bobbio abbots, travelled to Rome to obtain the first papal privilege of immunity, and served as a missionary priest on the northern borderlands of the Frankish kingdom. He spent the rest of his life in Merovingian Gaul as abbot of the double monastic community of Marchiennes-Hamage, where he wrote his Life of Columbanus, one of the most influential works of early medieval hagiography. This book, the first major study devoted to Jonas of Bobbio, his corpus of three saints' Lives, and the Columbanian familia, explores the development of the Columbanian monastic network and its relationship to its founder. The Life of Columbanus was written following a period of crisis within the Columbanian familia and it was in response to this crisis that the Bobbio community in Lombard Italy commissioned Jonas to write the work. Alexander O'Hara presents the Life of Columbanus as a subtle and clever critique of the changes and crises that had taken place in the monastic communities since Columbanus's death. It also considers the life of Jonas as reflecting many of the changing political, cultural, and religious circumstances of the seventh century, and his writings as instrumental in shaping new concepts of sanctity and community. The result of the study is a unique perspective on the early medieval Age of Saints and the monastic and political worlds of Merovingian Gaul and Lombard Italy in the seventh century.

Francia, Band 48

Author : Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris
Publisher : Thorbecke
ISBN 13 : 3799581502
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Francia, Band 48 written by Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris and published by Thorbecke. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Band enthält 36 Beiträge in deutscher, französischer und englischer Sprache. Die Themenvielfalt reicht von der Fredegarchronik des 7. Jahrhunderts und dem Fortleben des römischen Rechts im frühen Mittelalter, den Anfängen diplomatischer Beziehungen und dem Hundertjährigen Krieg über die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen des 17. Jahrhunderts, die Eidleistung französischer Bischöfe unter Ludwig XIV. und die Bibliotheksgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit bis zum Pariser Musikleben während der Julimonarchie, den Vegetarismus am Vorabend des Ersten Weltkriegs und die aktuelle Genderdebatte in Afrika. Mit der Geschichte des Körpers und seiner politischen Rolle am frühmodernen Hof sowie der Bürokratisierung afrikanischer Gesellschaften befassen sich die Beiträge zweier "Ateliers".

Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils, AD 511-768

Author : Gregory I. Halfond
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004179763
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils, AD 511-768 written by Gregory I. Halfond and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite growing scepticism concerning the evidentiary value of normative legal sources, scholars continue to mine the legislative acts of ecclesiastical councils for insight into political, religious, and quotidian life in Frankish Gaul. Between the reigns of Clovis and Charlemagne (AD 511-768) at least eighty councils assembled, often on royal command, to discuss issues of concern to the episcopal and clerical attendees. Their published canons were intended to communicate ecclesiastical policy in the Frankish regnum. However, scholars have paid comparatively slight attention to the institution responsible for this body of legislation. This book remedies this lacuna by delineating the functions and modus operandi of the Frankish church council as an administrative body.

Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul

Author : Raymond Van Dam
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400821142
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul written by Raymond Van Dam and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saints' cults, with their focus on miraculous healings and pilgrimages, were not only a distinctive feature of Christian religion in fifth-and sixth-century Gaul but also a vital force in political and social life. Here Raymond Van Dam uses accounts of miracles performed by SS. Martin, Julian, and Hilary to provide a vivid and comprehensive depiction of some of the most influential saints' cults. Viewed within the context of ongoing tensions between paganism and Christianity and between Frankish kings and bishops, these cults tell much about the struggle for authority, the forming of communities, and the concept of sin and redemption in late Roman Gaul. Van Dam begins by describing the origins of the three cults, and discusses the career of Bishop Gregory of Tours, who benefited from the support of various patron saints and in turn promoted their cults. He then treats the political and religious dimensions of healing miracles--including their relation to Catholic theology and their use by bishops to challenge royal authority--and of pilgrimages to saints' shrines. The miracle stories, collected mainly by Gregory of Tours, appear in their first complete English translations.